Description

WARNING: Issues with this application have been reported on the MOTOROLA series of devices. After getting such devices we will try to replicate this error and fix it. Installation for those devices is not recommended until this is resolved. Please do report all the issues to us and read our FAQs: www.securedeletion.com/faq.html-----------------------------------------------------------SHREDroid forces your Android phone to overwrite deleted data so that it is actually deleted and can no longer be recovered.

Our smart phones store sensitive personal and business data such as emails, SMS messages, pictures, and our web browsing histories. Unfortunately deletion on phones is not immediate. Even after you delete your email or clear your browser's cache, the data will remain on your phone typically for days or even months, depending on phone usage. This data is easily recoverable with minimal effort by technically-knowledgable persons.

Standard countermeasures do not help, such as overwriting files with random data, due to special features of the Android's file system (namely the use of journaling). Even encryption does not help as the associated key must be stored temporarily in memory and is recoverable after deletion.

Our SHREDroid application solves this problem. SHREDroid forces your Android phone to overwrite the sections of storage where deleted data resides so that the data is really deleted and cannot be recovered.

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A Google User

User interface needs work Trialed on Samsung Galaxy S1 & 10." Tab, worked fine on both with some issues. Seems to function by filling all the empty space with files or data, could be an issue if you stop it before it cleans up. Would do better if you could select start time, and had more than 48hrs as maximum interval between scans, I woukd prefer to be able to stop the scedule and just run mamually whi I think it's needed, plus given the risk of stopping early it needs a reliable progress indicator. Finally I set 48hrs as scan interfal, but second scan started only 2hrs later, not good.

Matthew Daniels

Works fine for me Seems to work fine on my Motorola Droid 4. Saw the warning about Moto phones but took a chance and I'm not disappointed. I don't use any of the scheduling features but the wipe seemed to work as expected. The aggregate score is too low for something that is working for some users.

VibratoryExistence

Utterly useless app! Downloaded, installed and ran this app. Thought everything was clean based off of output from this app. Then I ran DrFone which found 50 deleted contacts, 66 deleted messages, and my entire call history of 538 calls... And I delete my call history frequently. Didn't do a single thing it advertised that it supposed to do! Utterly useless!

Ryan Bergeron

Crashes when trying to run it. When i press the secure button the app crashses. No matter what settings i choose it will always crash. I'm going to keep it installed in hopes that it will update to work with Samsung Galaxy S5

Balthazar

Will give five stars if helped When I clicked "secure delete now" the application closed and a message came up saying "shredroid had quit unexpectedly" pls help me fix this

A Google User

Defunct This out-and-out refuses to work for me. It will not shred internal and/or external data, forcing a quit every time I try. A device-specific problem, I have to assume.

User reviews

A Google User February 18, 2012

User interface needs work Trialed on Samsung Galaxy S1 & 10." Tab, worked fine on both with some issues. Seems to function by filling all the empty space with files or data, could be an issue if you stop it before it cleans up. Would do better if you could select start time, and had more than 48hrs as maximum interval between scans, I woukd prefer to be able to stop the scedule and just run mamually whi I think it's needed, plus given the risk of stopping early it needs a reliable progress indicator. Finally I set 48hrs as scan interfal, but second scan started only 2hrs later, not good.

Works fine for me Seems to work fine on my Motorola Droid 4. Saw the warning about Moto phones but took a chance and I'm not disappointed. I don't use any of the scheduling features but the wipe seemed to work as expected. The aggregate score is too low for something that is working for some users.

Utterly useless app! Downloaded, installed and ran this app. Thought everything was clean based off of output from this app. Then I ran DrFone which found 50 deleted contacts, 66 deleted messages, and my entire call history of 538 calls... And I delete my call history frequently. Didn't do a single thing it advertised that it supposed to do! Utterly useless!

Crashes when trying to run it. When i press the secure button the app crashses. No matter what settings i choose it will always crash. I'm going to keep it installed in hopes that it will update to work with Samsung Galaxy S5

Motorola Droid 3 Safe for Motorola Droid 3 users. Took a chance, even after reading the warning about motorola phones, and app worked fine. I could barely use my phone while it was running but that was only for 30 min. Considering theres hardly anything out there of its kind for android and the known issues, this app worked just fine. Def could use some improvements but the Developers are def aware. Look forward to the improvements as this is the only app of its kind.

Worked on Moto Razr Maxx w/ICS 4.0.4! Update: Runs on its own even w/o being scheduled! Will uninstall for now and just install when needed until this issue is resolved. Using Titanium Backup I FIRST backed everything up AND backed up to Dropbox too. Next ran History Eraser to clean up. Then ran on SD and internal storage too. Big bonus would be options for overwrite method. Presume free space is just filled once and then deleted.

Crashes on Samsung Note Installed this app as it appears to be the only app that will wipe properly, well or so I thought. First try and it crashed, doesn't exactly install a lot of confidence does it. Consider this a FAIL! Hope this app improves but for now its an uninstall

Not Compatible with Asus Zenfone It'a not that I hate this, it's more on the fact that I can't use it on my Asus Phone. If this app could be optimized on my Asus Zenfone 2, I would give it a good rating

READ I really do like this app, its come in handy, just one flaw that has nothing to do with the app its self. How do you know if it really is deleting? I have an LG optimus G so if anyone could give some pointers that would be greatly apperiated

When i clicks on secure delete now button, it stops working.. "Unfortunately, SHREDroid has stopped." Text appears in my Galaxy Note 3 sm-n900. Not working...Very bad response..And it is also causing my smartphone to run slowly reported by Samsung Smart manager, inbuilt apk from samsung. Really it left a bad impression...

The best tool works likeits supposed to keep up thegood work dont change please the first time I used it it crashed then thats because the system dirty so cleaned it then made sure had enough room to open it cause the system will always say you have the amount of space but its,years of hidden trash traces that take the room I used this app the first time it cleaned 157 mb space well job done guys